14 Indispensable Keys to Success:

Desire
Working on a hillside as a child with a view of the rich uncle's home on the lake in the distance, knowing I would go home to the apple orchard worker's cottage and a nightly beating from my alcoholic step father created real "Desire"

Can Do Attitude
Little successes as a child, some as small as getting a lawn mowing job to earn money for the shoes I needed started me on the way to a "Can Do Attitude"

Strong Work Ethic
Working in a grocery store and running instead of walking back to the store after carrying the groceries got me promoted past journeyman grocers who had many years seniority taught me a lesson on the value of a "Strong Work Ethic"

Inner Peace
My faith is the most important key to success. I owe a debt of gratitude I cannot begin to pay to the people who took the time to take a ragged kid form the home of alcoholics to Sunday School where I found a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. The transformation that happened in the life of a 9 year old boy is astounding to me as I write this 57 years later

Integrity
There can be no real success without integrity. Integrity is not something you do or don't do, it is part of your character. You don't decide to do the right thing, the right thing is done because of who you are

Faith
One of my favorite Bible passages says, "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." You have to have personal confidence for any really great accomplishment. I drew my confidence from my faith in God. If God would help me, yes, I could do it.

Hope
As a child growing up, I got hope from seeing he successful people around me. My rich step-uncle, my band instructor, the business owners I worked for. I had to draw from the outside, there was no encouragement from home. I had no family member to look up to or go to for advice, but watching the people on the outside and my faith in God gave me "hope"

Charity
Zig Ziglar's famous quote, "You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want. My experience has shown that it works even better if you do it without expecting or demanding anything in return. I love giving tips to people who normally never get one. I can't tell you how many times a five dollar gift elicited this response "Wow, you have made my day." how cool is that... it was only five dollars.

Creativity
As I child I went down the street looking for a need... then sold my lawn mowing services, weed pulling services, car washing services or, well you get the picture. In the early days struggling to scratch out a living, we used to say "We have done so much with so little, we feel like we can do anything with almost nothing." Most often is was after the auction where we made money on some "cleaned up" item we bought at the same auction the week before.

Enthusiasm
Trying to find the first example of enthusiasm was a challenge for me. I actually thought about taking it off the list, but could not because I believe in it's importance. I was so beaten down, physically and mentally as a child there was no "thing" I was enthusiastic about. But I did discover (in my 11th grade debate class) the origin of what excites me.

Time Management
As hard as I have tried, I have never been able to get more than 1,440 minutes out of a 24 hour day. You have a limited supply of hours, what are you going to do with them.

Go the Extra Mile
My biggest success in sales has always been making more calls than my competitor. But there is more to going the extra mile than just putting in more effort. The real value is in giving people more than you promised and more than they expect.

Squash the Fear of Failure
Growing up as a kid, looking up to the kids who lived on the wrong side of the tracks. I had plenty of failures and weaknesses pointed out to me all the time. There are two sides to the overcoming the fear of failure coin. One side is "Oh well, what more can I lose?" The other side is "I really don't want the ridicule of yet another failure." Squashing the fear of failure requires looking failure in the face and.

Desperation
Working on a hillside as a child with a view of the rich uncle's beautiful home on the lake in the distance, knowing I would go home to the apple orchard workers cottage and a nightly beating from my alcoholic step father created real "desire." It was desperation that turned out to be the catalyst of my success. In class, I will show how you can use desperation to solve your needs and overcome any obstacle.

Sharpening Salon Scissors

Most salon scissors and many barber scissors
cannot be sharpened with a grinder because they have convex edges
and an 800 Millimeter Radius

If you want to sharpen scissors in the beauty salon,
you must first understand the way most of the scissors used by the
professional hair stylist are made.
If you do not understand the way the scissors are designed to cut,
it will be impossible for you to sharpen the scissors without ruining them.

There are three important components to understand:

c The Japanese style shear has
a
hollow ground blade and a convex cutting edge. This combination gives the scissors
a sharper, cleaner cut and allows for the popular "slide cutting" technique used
by most professional stylists. If you damage the convex edge
(sharpen it on a grinder) the scissors are reduced in value to that of the low end
barber scissors. The hollow ground blade creates a "ride" area around the perimeter
of the blade which must be thoroughly honed.
Failure to hone the ride will cause the scissors to feel rough in the stylist's
hand, inhibit its ability to cut clean and will cause unnecessary wear
on the interior of the blade.

c
The second component is the convex edge. This rounded edge in conjunction with
the hollow ground portion of the blade we just discussed, is how the scissors
are able to give the cleaner sharper cut so important to the professional hair stylist.
Putting the convex edge against the convex edge of any kind of grinding stone or wheel
will create the opposite - a concave or bevel edge on the scissors.
That is why you should never use a grinder of any of the scissors currently
being used by the professional hair dresser whether you find them in the
beauty salon or barber shop.
Even some of the dog groomers are now using these popular scissors.

c
The third component is the 800 millimeter radius.
This slight curve in the blade adjusts the angle of attack so the blades do not push
the hair. Please watch this video to see this process in action.
The 800 millimeter radius replaced the need for the serrated (corrugated) edge
found on many of the low end barber scissors.
That is why this issue is so important even though it is ignored by so many of
the sharpening machines on the market today.

Major Mistake #1

Using a grinder on Japanese
style scissors. Yes, the machine is cheaper, but can you in good
conscience, knowingly ruin the scissors for your trusting customer?
If you want to use a grinder as your tool of the trade, use it in
the other segments of the sharpening industry.
Stay out of the beauty salons!

Major Mistake #2

Using an outdated flat hone system to sharpen Japanese style shears.
Yes, it is better than a grinder, at least they can do a convex edge.
But why unnecessarily straighten the 800 millimeter radius?
With the invention of the patented Diamond Rose Superior Sharpening System,
both the convex edge and the 800 millimeter radius can be restored to
factory specifications.

A Demonstration of Why the 800 Millimeter Radius is so
Important!

Please Click on the Play Button

Your class will include sharpening styling and texturizing shears in both right and left handed models.

You will learn the secret Diamond Rose Superior Sharpening system 20 step process for returning the hair cutting scissors to factory new specifications.

Yes, there is much more to the sharpening process than just the Diamond Rose Superior Sharpening Machine. Our patented machine makes it mechanically possible to match
factory specifications.

Beyond the capabilities of the machine are the understanding and techniques of how scissors are made. There are actually many small techniques we \
will teach you in our highly specialized training class.

Class size is limited enabling each person to have as much one-on-one attention as necessary to assure you will not leave the class until you are fully qualified
to return hair cutting scissors to their original factory new cutting condition.